Improved extension-table



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ntrd (gisten @anni @man JOHN sIMENsEN, or HERMON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR To HIMsnLr AND orls EARL, or SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 91,974, dated June' 29, 1869.

IMPROVED EXTENSION-TABLE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and. making part -cf the same.

To all whom 'it may concern dining-tables, designed to provide an arrangement whereby the persons sit-ting at the table will be disposed in a circular line, at equal distances around the head of the family or the person serving them. 4

It consists in the arrangement of an extension-table, so that, when extended, it will assume the form of a portion of a circle, having a space at the axis thereof for the head of the family, permitting the other occupants to be disposed around the curved outer side, at equal distances from the said central person.

Figure l represents a sectional elevation of my improved table, when iu the closed position;

Figure 2'represents a plan, with the top removed; and

Figure 3 represents a plan, when in the extended position, with the top partly removed. l

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A and A' represent two semicircular ends, oonstructed in the usual manner, of the ends of extension-tables, designed to form a circular table when elosed.

These ends are connected by jointed stringers'B B', the set B being sufciently longer than the set B, to cause the table, when extended, to assume a curw ture having any required radius, tbe set B being of such length' as to preserve a suicient space at the axis for the person who carves and waits upon the others.` Any preferred number of radial cross-bars C, supported upon legs, may be interposed between the stl'ingers at the joints to render the structure permanent, and the striugers may be jointed in any way, or,

in place of the jointed stringers, curved segmental stringers sliding upon one another may beemployed. The top boards are made wider at one end than the other, to correspond with the required curvature.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters'latent, is

A dining or extension-table, arranged to assume a curved form around a space at the axis of the curvature, when extended, substantially as herein` specified. The above specification of my invention signed by me, this 18th day of March, 1869.

JOHN SIMEN SEN. Vitnesses:

Oris EARLE, ANDREW RIND. 

